I recently had the pleasure of reviewing an excellent paper that used actual data (DATA!) to argue that source code needs to be part of the review process. (When it is published I will post again about it; for now, the process of secret handshakes in smoke-filled back rooms must …
read moreThere are comments.
I am just returning from a trip to Southern California that included, among other things, the teaching of a two day Software Carpentry workshop at The Scripps Research Institute. There were two instructors, myself and Tracy Teal, a research scientist at MSU; and two external TAs, Qingpeng Zhang (one of …
read moreThere are comments.
Just over a week ago, I posted a list of wanted tech that I thought would help further open science. One item that struck a chord with a number of people on Twitter and in the comments was the idea of giving blog entries a DOI:
read more
- An easy way to …
There are comments.
I gave a talk last Wednesday at U. Michigan in the DCMB program where I included a slide estimating how much DNA sequencing (in base pairs) was needed for good de novo assembly of sequences from various biological environments or problems. The slide was there to motivate the challenges of …
read moreThere are comments.
This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
It's been fun to watch (and occasionally help drive) science moving online and taking advantage of the Web. Here are some of my favorite examples.
Simple, easy ways of sharing process abound …
There are comments.
This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
The web represents an opportunity for a phase transition in terms of connectedness and openness in scientific practice, as in software development, and we're not taking much advantage of it. Why?
There are comments.
This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
I've been reading Michael Nielsen's book Reinventing Discovery, which is an awesome and inspirational book about (among other things) accelerating scientific discovery using the Internet. Highly recommended.
From my position within academia …
read moreThere are comments.